Name: Everything That Went Wrong During the Bay of Pigs Invasion
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In April of 1962, anti-Castro Cuban exiles staged an invasion

The CIA, who was behind the three-day operation,

would come to consider it one of the most colossal blunders

Well, let's just say that Che Guevara himself

is reputed to have thanked an American government

Today, we're going to recount some of the most insane facts

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In 1973, E. Howard Hunt stood before a senate committee

investigating the Watergate break-in and said,

"I cannot escape the feeling that the country is punishing

me for doing the very things it trained and directed me to."

Do what Hunt didn't say was that those things included

Hunt joined the CIA in 1949 and quickly rose through the ranks.

In 1954, he helped overthrow the Arbenz regime in Mexico.

By 1960, he was helping recruit Cuban exiles

willing to serve in a provisional government set up

This would lead directly to Hunt's eventual involvement

Though he wouldn't officially resign until 1970,

Hunt's career with the CIA was effectively over

He would quickly fall in with the players in the Nixon White

House and became a key figure in the Watergate scandal.

Seeking to give themselves plausible deniability

the CIA sought to launch the invasion from Nicaragua.

To this end, they approached president and de facto dictator

at the hands of international entities like the United

Determined to get their way, the CIA eventually

bribed Somoza into agreeing for the tidy sum of $10 million.

an attempted coup in Guatemala against a pro-US government.

The American planes that came to support the ground

troops during the invasion had been disguised as Cuban planes.

This is so the Cubans wouldn't shoot them down.

was so disorganized and ill-informed that they thought

the American planes were actual Cuban planes

It's difficult to start a revolution without the support

The CIA, though their director denied it,

to break out against Castro as part of their plan.

that such a revolt was likely in the wake of an invasion.

in a geographically remote area with a low population.

Without a wide-ranging propaganda campaign

have no way to find out an invasion had even occurred.

Castro had thousands of political dissidents arrested

the chances of an insurrection fell precipitously.

It has been suggested by some that the only way

to explain the spectacular failure of the Bay of Pigs

is to assume failure was what the CIA wanted all along.

But why would the CIA want the invasion to fail?

Well, the agents in command of the operation

didn't believe Castro could be overthrown

sought to manipulate President Kennedy into ordering

that larger invasion by arranging for the smaller

invasion force of exiles to fail sooner rather than later.

After the invasion failed, President Kennedy

ordered a military review of the operation to figure out

That report, which would remain classified for decades,

concluded that both Cuba and the USSR knew of the invasion plan

In fact, the review determined that the communists

knew the plan before the rank-and-file members

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